Rusk Quotes

#1. The week the local paper carried a story about the boy's incarceration and lobotomy in the state hospital at Rusk, the guys at the refinery pitched the kid's daddy a party complete with balloons and noisemakers.

Mary Karr

#2. There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I'm not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels.

Fred Armisen

#3. I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.

Richard Holbrooke

#4. blacks who had been dragging the city down for the past twenty years. Rusk and a few trusted friends referred to them as "untouchables.

Greg Iles

#5. One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them. - DEAN RUSK

Kerry Patterson

#6. Because Mateo Torres is loud, and I'm quiet. Because he's reckless, and I'm cautious. Because he belongs everywhere, and I don't.
Because I think I'm in danger of falling in love with him.

Cora Carmack

#7. We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Dean Rusk

#8. The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.

Dean Rusk

#9. The best way to persuade is with your ears.

Dean Rusk

#10. Up next is Noelle.
'Hey, girl!'
'Don't you dare start calling me that. This is very nice of you to do.

Ned Vizzini

#11. When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.

Dean Rusk

#12. The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

Dean Rusk

#13. The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

Dean Rusk

#14. We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature.

Esther Rolle

#15. I saw that I had followed the chief guiding principle of the petty bourgeoisie in modernity and made a virtue of necessity in telling myself my husband was a good lover.

Nell Zink

#16. While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

Dean Rusk

#17. We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.

Dean Rusk

#18. Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

Dean Rusk

#19. Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.

Dean Rusk

#20. Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.

Dean Rusk

#21. The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

Dean Rusk

#22. The men of Texas deserved much credit, but more was due the women. Armed men facing a foe could not but be brave; but the women, with their little children around them, without means of defense or power to resist, faced danger and death with unflinching courage.

Thomas Jefferson Rusk

#23. One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.

Dean Rusk

#24. I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

Ray Charles

#25. Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

Dean Rusk

#26. We're eyeball to eyeball ... and I think the other fellow just blinked.

Dean Rusk

#27. I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

Jimmy Piersall

#28. The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

Dean Rusk

#29. Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

Dean Rusk

#30. If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.

Dean Rusk